It is so nice to see that many people are buying my writing and publishing book for their incoming grad students. THANKS! My main goal was to have a book for early researches so they could learn faster what i learned in years mybook.to/ScienceGuide #Academia #PhDLife #ScienceWriting 🧪🌐

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last wk.

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

I’m pleased to announce that I’m joining the Department of Biological Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Ecology at the University of Notre Dame in Fall 2027. Please visit www.berrios-lab.com for open positions and more information about our lab.

New publication! 🍄🏖🛢 We explored how the 2021 OC oil spill affected marine fungal communities. Spoiler: Despite strong temporal environmental variation and rapid cleanup efforts, we detected subtle changes in community composition at higher oiling levels. Find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

The world lost a wonderful person. Jeremy was my first research mentor in undergrad, and he continued to support my career to this very day. He became a friend, colleague, and a person I truly loved. Rest in peace, my friend. You will be missed. www.stoudenmiredowling.com/obituaries/j...

Dr. Jeremy Daniel Rentsch Obituary Jul 9, 2026 - Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home

View Dr. Jeremy Daniel Rentsch's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

Gave an update on our microbiome-aging work in June at @ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social in a session organized by the Danone Institute. TLDR -- butyrate appears to be good for you ;) Stay tuned for the preprint. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZYg...

IHMC2026 Danone Institute Conference Sean Gibbons

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Hey @icom2026.bsky.social! I'm looking for AMF-focused postdoc opportunities in the UK + EU! My talk on combined dPCR quantification + long-read PacBio community profiling for GWAS will be on WED 13:30-15:30 in symposium #15! #ICOM26

Want to talk about roots and the rhizosphere at the @agu.org American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting #AGU26? Submit to: B065-- Measuring and Modeling the Role of Roots and Belowground Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... Abstracts submissions open now until August!

We talk about the catastrophic de-funding of science by this administration, but the arts are also losing even more. It's a tragedy. My dad is a helluva poet, and a wonderful performer. Here's his recitation of his friend Ed Lahey's poem "Gimp O'Leary's Iron Works" youtu.be/ubwm2ZaAg8M?...

Montana Poet Laureate Mark Gibbons Reads Ed Lahey

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Posting on behalf of my colleagues (I am part of this project, too). Postdoc position aimed at generating policy-relevant knowledge to effectively integrate forest-soil carbon in Canadian policies. Details and contact information in job ad below. Please share!

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A new ectomycorrhizal Leotia species from neotropical montane forest - Mycological Progress

The genus Leotia (Leotiaceae) is globally distributed with approximately 45 named species and several subspecies, varieties and forms. Persoon first proposed Leotia in 1794. Most of the taxonomic work...

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New preprint! We used global observations and ML-informed niche modeling to understand the drivers of mycorrhizal fungal distributions and predict their sensitivity to climate change, finding big differences between guilds. Many people to thank! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Functional composition of subsoil microbial communities changes with oak mortality

Tree mortality in oak savannas is increasing under climate change, but its impact on microbial communities and soil carbon below the top 20 centimeter…

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Recent progress in genomics, phylogenetics & palaeontology yielded new insights into plant and fungal evolution since the 10th NPW. The 35th New Phytologist Workshop will highlight the progresses made since that time to move the field forward. www.newphytologist.org/events/35-npw

Meet the team behind the Early Career Researcher Symposium at #ICOM2026 🌏 A dedicated group empowering the next generation of mycorrhizal scientists through talks, mentoring & connection. Explore more 👉 icom2026.org/ecr/ #Mycorrhiza @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social

Happy to contribute to 'The Complete Fungi' led by David Hibbett. I'm excited to get my copy! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Complete Fungi

A richly illustrated natural history of fungi

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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#MorningVibe We ain’t gonna let any censorship turn us around! Joan Baez & Maggie Rogers join forces for a powerful performance, showing how activism and art are inextricably linked. #PowerToThePeople

🧵 New paper out in @PlantPhysiology! We asked: how do trees talk to their fungal partners during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis? Turns out, tiny secreted peptides play a big role. 1/ Read the full paper here 👇 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Poplar CLE peptides promoting ectomycorrhizal symbiosis identified through genome-wide analysis of responsive small secreted peptides

Trees use CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION-related (CLE) peptides to promote ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, revealing an additional regulatory layer in tree–

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Curious about applying cryogenic electron tomography to your microbial work? Give our latest @pnas.org paper a read to find out how. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Carbon–phosphorus exchange rate constrains density–speed trade-off in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal growth www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Carbon–phosphorus exchange rate constrains density–speed trade-off in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal growth | PNAS

Symbiotic nutrient exchange between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and their host plants varies widely depending on their physical, chemical, an...

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Fungi Talks: Fungal Evolution with Professor David Hibbett from Clark University

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Microbiomes in mushroom-forming fungi by Bae et al. www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...

Microbiomes in mushroom-forming fungi

<p>The microbiome is the integrated information on the composition, functional potential, and environmental determinants of a microbial community within a defined ecosystem. High-throughput omics tech...

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Just accepted: Truong C, Corrales A, …, Urrutia-Jalabert R, Godoy R, Sheldrake M, Furci G, Kiers TE, Marín C. 2026. Large-diameter trees contribute disproportionally to fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth. Biodiversity & Conservation

I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou: imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus (Fr. ex Rabenh.) P. Kumm. (Agaricales, Entolomataceae)

Transitions between saprotrophic and biotrophic lifestyles represent pivotal evolutionary events in fungal ecology; however, the genomic and physiological mechanisms underlying such shifts remain poor...

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Are you a researcher translating fungal science into real conservation action? 📣 Call for abstracts now open 📍14–17 April 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden 🔗 Apply: www.slu.se/en/fce2026/ ⏰ Deadline: 25 Feb 2026

Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming meeting: Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden 14-17 April 2026.

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📣 Become a 2026 Underground Explorer and help us map and protect the underground. Grant amount: Up to $10,000 USD Deadline: 22 March, 2026 at 23:59 UTC-10:00 (Hawaii) Link to apply: www.spun.earth/expeditions/apply